Has anyone tried SHELL181 in Ansys APDL 14.5 in a modal analysis for composite material of 7 layers?

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Ahmed H. Abdulaziz

I'm working on a wind turbine blade , I'm using Glass fiber-epoxy layers as a material for it, I tried Shell 181 in Ansys and it gave results BUT with no plotted results on the blade saying "The degree of freedom solution is not available" !

Some colleagues said "maybe the problem in this element" but I do not think so.

Do you need more info?

Ravindra Bhardwaj

see ansys user manual for element type and select afterwards